Hi,
sorry for this meta offtopic question...but I need informations about
some internals of vim...
I am using mutt to compose and read mail. The editor for this is vim
(surprised? :) Mutt/Vim are running on/in/at/on top off/with (or what
else the correct preposition is... X-) mrxvt. And all this is running
on a Linux 2.6.20.6 Gentoo Linux.
Now: When I am receiving mail containing german umlauts, they will be
displayed as "\<number>" inside mutt. Inside vim these mails are
displayed correctly when cited -- most of the times. But in some
cases the umlauts also get corrupted.
Entering umlauts in vim is also no problem.
Entering umlauts on the commandlind (zsh/mrxvt) also displayed them
correctly. Filenames containing umlauts are displayed...hrmmm...
encrypted but will be correctly expanded (<TAB>) when using the zsh
completion system.
These mix of "it works" and "it does not work" confuses me. Would
vim be able to display german umlauts correctly if the system
completly ignores/does not know of UTF-8 ?
What is the trick I am missing to display german umlauts correctly
with mutt? There are recipes out there in the internet which
discribes the _complete_ change from ASCII to UTF-8 for mutt. But
these recipes describes more or less the change either on base of a
totally UTF-8 aware system (which seems not applicable in my case) or
the a complete recompilation of the whole system as a migration
from ASCII to UTF-8 ... which seems not to be needed in my case.
The basic question is for me: How can vim display german umlauts
correctly if the world outside of vim seems not to be completly
UTF-8 aware? What do I need to change in the chain ?
Thank you very much for your help in advance!
Keep editing!
mcc
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